A teddy bear on a mission visited Madison on Thursday to spend the day raising awareness about missing persons. Nearly 4,000 miles since his adventure began, Miles for the Missing Superbear traveled to the area to call attention to Madison native Molly Dattilo’s disappearance, which happened more than a decade ago.

Close to 1,000 Jefferson County Duke Energy customers were without power after storms passed through the area Wednesday night. Overloaded transformers near Christ Episcopal Church on Third Street and downed trees on power lines farther east on that street left some residents without power for over an hour.